We seem to start each blog at the moment with comments about a really busy and positive week and this week is no different! Please read our news and hear what fantastic opportunities we have enjoyed this week across our school.

Welcome everyone to our weekly update of news from across our wonderful school.

Welcome to our weekly update of life here at Kington Primary, and what a wonderful week it has been!

Welcome to our weekly news update. We have had an incredibly busy and exciting last week for this half-term and have examples of the fantastic opportunities which our super children have enjoyed to share with you.

Welcome to our weekly news update from across our lovely school. We have had another productive and busy week with exciting learning opportunities being explored by all of our classes.

This week, we have welcomed Paul, Peter and Paul who have supported some of our Year 5 children as they have worked toward their Levels 1 and 2 'Bike-ability'. We have all been impressed by the commitment and focus which the children showed throughout the sessions and we celebrated their achievements in our Friday assembly.

Year 4 have completed their 'Peace Education' workshops and said a huge 'Thank you' to the volunteers for their time, hard work and enthusiasm for these sessions. Year 4 have been interested each week to explore the theme linked to peace and positive values particularly enjoying the circle time activities.

Our after-school theatre group, who work alongside Emily from 'The Courtyard', shared their performance piece this week with their families, which was brilliant.

In our assemblies, we have made a start on our new value for April which is 'Respect' and in our classrooms we have thought about what this word means especially as it is one of our 3 focus rules - Ready, Respectful and Safe. We are sure that we will be able to spot this value across our school in many different ways and at different times of the day.

We also welcomed Hannah from Checkpoint who shared with us the next part of the Easter story and helped us all to get even better at the speedy song which she has taught us!

In our Friday assembly we were able to celebrate working hard in all lessons, for sharing fantastic ideas with the rest of the class, for trying hard to be the best friend that they can be, for wonderful reading, for brightening other people's day, for pushing themselves to do an activity which might be challenging and never giving up, for being an amazing 'Young Leader' and for making a sustained positive effort in maths. We also presented 2 more 'Gone Green' multiplication certificates to our Year 4 children. 'Well done' to you all.

Next week, we look forward to our enrichment morning on Tuesday and achievement assembly on Friday and other lovely Easter related activities! 

Today, it is our Easter Bingo (eyes down for 6pm) and we look forward to seeing many of you there. 

We hope that everyone has a super weekend and we all look forward to welcoming you to our last week of the term on Monday.

This week across school, we have been able to enjoy a fantastic 5 days with lots of amazing learning and positive friendships being shared. We have all thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful sunshine this week and it certainly has felt as though Spring has arrived!

As you can see, from the lovely photos, Reception have been enjoying more super time in the outside environment exploring. During their 'welly walk' last week the children really enjoyed making and testing out binoculars whilst they were spotting different birds. It is very clear that they were very impressed with the birds which they managed to spot.

In our assemblies this week, we have been continuing to work on the values of perseverance and courage.  With Mrs. Bretherton, we shared the power of the word 'yet'. We explored different skills or activities that we may not have mastered 'yet' but that did not mean that we wouldn't be able to in time.

Hannah from 'Checkpoint' visited and started the Easter story with us all, thinking about how Christians view Jesus as a King but a King without a crown, throne, chariot or cloak. We also learnt a new song with Hannah which included some exciting actions which got quicker as the song went on!

In Friday's sticker assembly, we were able to celebrate such fantastic achievements this week including the most amazing demonstration of our 'ready, respectful, safe' rules, for growing in self-confidence, great sporting skills in PE, for working so hard on their reading skills so that real progress can be seen by everyone and for being able to work out equivalent fractions at the drop of a hat!

We also enjoyed our new values poem being read out by volunteers from Key Stage 1. Thank you for sharing these important ideas with us this morning.

'Thank you' to everyone who has supported our 'Comic Relief' efforts today and it has been amazing to see such a colourful school with lots of happiness and joy on show. We have raised a great amount to donate to this charity £160.46 so far. Thank you all.

Next week, we have particular days and activities to look forward to, including Science Day on Thursday where our classes will be exploring different themes and activities which are guaranteed to be thought provoking, full of 'wow' moments and engaging. We also have non-uniform on Friday 28th March in return for a monetary donation to support our 'Friends' Easter bingo.

We wish everyone a 'Happy Weekend' and look forward to seeing you all on Monday morning.